CROSSING THE BORDER novel Chapter 86

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Chapter 86

“Please, Maximus, trust me for this one time. I don’t want to lie to you,” Rania pleaded with him. She looked at him desperately, trying to find a way to convince him. “I started telling you the truth, so I don’t want to lie now.”

Maximus narrowed his eyes, he wanted to snap Rania’s neck, but to his annoyance, he couldn’t bring himself to create such permanent damage on her.

“Telling me the truth? How do I know you are telling me the truth?” Maximus’s voice was very harsh, even though he didn’t raise it.

Rania felt there was a blunt knife that twisted in her heart when she heard that. Those exact words were her worse nightmare, because she used to have people not to believe her.

However, Maximus did, for a certain amount of time, he did believe what she said, therefore to lose his trust was very painful for her.

Rania tried to breathe deeply, trying not to let the panic took over her, but it was not easy, because the look on Maximus’s face told her everything.

The king was hurt, and he didn’t want to believe what she said no matter what.

Yet, Rania gathered her courage and tried again. “Maximus. I was wrong to do such horrendous thing behind your back, I am sorry, but at that time we were not in a good term, and you scared me. Please, I didn’t lie to you when I told you that stopped giving you the poison even before we left for the Bloody Moon pack.”

“Should I believe you?” Maximus swatted Rania’s hand harshly when she tried to touch him, but guilt crept in when he saw he used too much strength and it hurt her.

“Please…”

“So, tell me what changed your mind?” Maximus narrowed his eyes dangerously, and Rania felt suffocated.

She fought back the panic that crowded in her mind, as her throat closed in, making it difficult for her to speak, and it didn’t look good in this situation.

Meanwhile, Eiten had ordered the warriors to leave the room, because the conversation here was not something that outsider should hear, while he restrained Kean himself.

“I…” Rania couldn’t answer that. If she said it out loud, it would only make Maximus even more reluctant to do it.

No, knowing the king, and his bad temper, he would do the opposite just to spite her. He would go to the extreme for that.

Therefore, Rania couldn’t give him the truth, and she was unable to find another solution. She lowered her head, but then the words came out of her mouth without her even thinking about it.

“Because I don’t want you to die.”

That was not a lie, she really didn’t want Maximus to die. She had seen his gentle side. Just like elder Gayle said; somewhere, deep down within Maximus, there was still that sweet boy that the elder knew, and Rania wanted to see it too.

“You don’t want me to die?” Maximus scoffed, as if he just heard the worse joke ever. “You didn’t want me to die that’s why you stopped giving me the poison? If the poison is not the slow acting one, and I died, do you think you can say that to me?”

Rania was fidgeting with the hem of her dress. She didn’t know how to explain this so she wouldn’t make things worse for her, but no matter what she said, it would end up with her digging her own grave.